Restore the Balance
1) Restore the Balance between We the People and the government, including: the Executive Branch, Congress and the courts. We must demand that our "elected" officials honor their oath of office--it's the only oath they take — which is to Support & Defend the Constitution. By Impeaching Cheney/Bush.
This is not optional, by the way, even though Members of Congress have had the bejesus scared out of them by having been sent letters laced with Fort Devins Anthrax, probably by the Administration. We've now reached the point again, as we did with JFK, RFK, MLK, Jr. , probably Malcolm X, where standing up for office, on your hind legs, can get you killed. That happened in 1775 and onward. It happened during the Civil War. It happened during the 1960s. And at least the threat of it has happened during the past years of the incomparably lawless Cheney/Bush administration.
2) Restore the Balance between our foreign policy and our "National Interests--(OIL and Projecting American Military Might Throughout the World" — as in ProjectILES coming from the barrels of our guns and guns/ and guns and guns, teroooo, terooo, (repeat)/ Oh Johnny, I hardly knew you) and
a) Get Out of Iraq — give Iraq back to the Iraqis; give Embassy City back to Baghdad; return the 14 "enduring" bases, and provide the where-with-all to let the Iraqis build back their country from the rubble we've reduced it to with unprecedented and cruel bombing under Poppy Bush and Baby Bush, and the criminal, unconscionable decade-long embargo, blockade, "sanctions" and "designations" by the Unitary Liar-In-Chief imposed on the people of Iraq as "collective punishment" for their failure to overthrow our ally, enemy, ally, then enemy again, Saddam Hussein. As they say at the home of the "trigger mug," Bennington Pottery, and at the Pottery Barn, "You break it, you bought it." As I recall, the going rate our military is paying in reparations for a dead Iraqi civilian is $1,000. (They should sue in Texas; their surviving families would get millions from those frivolous wrongful death lawsuits)
b) Reign in the WIA (War Department Intel Admin, formerly known as the Defense Department Intel Admin), the CIA, NSA, FBI, and the rest of what we're told are 15 distinct "intelligence" agencies (remember, they're the ones who don't have enough, if any, native speakers of the Afghani dialects, speakers of Arabic, Farsi, etc. I vaguely recall some one of our CIA or other intel "operatives" having been quoted as saying "We don't do countries where you get diarrhea from the drinking water."
2a) Restore the Balance of honesty and trust between citizens and their government concerning the events leading up to, during and after 9/11 with a full-scale, independent investigation.
By my back-of-the-envelop calculations, about 43,000 individual explosive and thermate shape-charges (and three or more MOATBs — Mothers of All Thermate Bombs) were required to bring down the three World Trade Center buildings 1, 2 and 7. Just let your mind begin to grasp just how long it would take even a small army of experts to install and rig all of those explosives.
Now, you may be one of those who believe the folks who say "Oooh, that big an undertaking could NEVER be kept secret! Of course, you probably weren't around when an even bigger undertaking, the building of the world's first atomic bombs, was kept secret. It was called The Manhattan Project, and parts of it were conducted on the East Coast, and other parts of it were conducted in New Mexico, at Los Alamos National Laboratory. I heard tell (not Teller), from the daughter of the guy who ran the cafeteria there, that after every meal, even the paper tablecloths had to be burned, because the scientists there would invariably be discussing their work and doodling on the place-mats or tablecloths.
And most non-New Yorkers STILL don't realize that three, not two, buildings were demolished on 9/11. They wouldn't learn about it from Phil Zelikow's infamous novel, The 9/11 Commission Report, either, because there is not one word about the collapse of the 47-story Salomon Brothers building, or WTC 7, in that work of fiction. And when there's a lapse about something as big as that, you just know the report is probably a complete white-wash, creating a legendary conspiracy theory that the attacks on and collapse of the three WTC buildings was inevitable and the facts were being fixed around that conspiracy theory by Zelikow, his henchmen, and his water-carriers Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton.
3) Restore the Balance between election challengers and the Incumbent Party's advantage: Eliminate cost of campaign advertising (require FCC to serve the public necessity--which is its mandate--and set aside five or so channels for campaign/political advertising 24 hrs a day, 365 days a year. (Commercial channels can carry such advertising, but they can't charge for it, and they must air, back to back, commercials for ALL the other candidates for that office. The order of broadcast to be determined by lot (or rock, paper, scissors--my favorite). And the stations have to cut their own content/revenue ads to make the time available to run all those ads back-to-back.
4a) Restore the Balance between Federal and State Government by capturing more taxes at the state level and, wherever possible, short-circuiting the taxpayer-to-Washington-to-States route, which always wastes money, as Washington seems to take a pretty big cut.d
4b) Restore the Balance between citizens and corporations by turning every family (and person) into a corporation. Then it'll be, "What's good for business is good for business"--because EVERYONE will be "a business," whether in business to raise children, re-acculturate, retrain themselves for their new economic poverty, etc. All family units intend to make a profit, and it's high time we gave them their proper appellation. What family do you know that wants to sink further into poverty with each passing year? Or doesn't want to put away savings, or invest in their own and their children's education? If that's not a profit-making intent, I don't know what profit or intent mean.
5). Restore the Balance between what we take out of the planet and what we give back to it.
6). Restore the Balance between the creators of wealth and the users of wealth (e.g., Hedge fund thieves get to put up maybe 10% of their own money and use 90% of the peoples' money — from banks— to make their SWAGs — scientific wild-ass gambles — on such things as: Four-wheel-drive Satyrs' Investment Vehicles which are little more than bets on promises to pay on bets on promises to pay on bets on promises to pay— or, in reverse order, bottom to top: Mortgagee to Mortgagor to Bank Gamblers to Investment Bank Gamblers to Foreign Investment Bank Gamblers to Hedge Fund Gamblers, to Central Bank Bailouts with taxpayers' money.
7). Restore the Balance between what children learn and what they need to learn.
8). Restore the balance between the citizens, their Constitution, and their government.
a). Require students and public officials to recite the preamble to the Constitution every day. And provide every school kid with his or her own pocket copy of the Constitution.
b). Wrest documents out of the cold living hands of Bush, Clinton, Cheney, Poppy Bush and the cold dead hands of Reagan. It is time to wean the Executive Branch from suckling on secrecy at the teats of Cerberus, the three-headed hound of Hell.
c). Wrest documents out of the hands of governmental agencies, quickly (no more than 30 days turnaround), and with penalties for non-compliance and wretched excess in censoring said documents. It's yet one more abuse of a rogue government run amok.
d). Pay attention to the {Preamble and the 9th amendment. (unenumerated individual rights)}, as well as the rest of the Constitution. I would assert that one of the UNenumerated rights we the people did NOT delegate to our government was the right to impeach the whole operation, sweep the Augean Capitol and White House clean of the horse manure they've been filled with for lo these past many seasons, and start over again. When, ever in our history, has there been a government so complicit in criminal conduct? I oscillate between livid anger and despondent lachrymation.
e) Last but not least, in all other matters governmental, return our government to a Constitutional footing.
Email address: wilt4congress@comcast.net
Most discouraging thing so far? People who conflate permitting someone to RUN for office by signing "nominating petitions" with signifying their assent to his/her positions by signing the petitions. Two separate matters. When people begin to learn about their own Constitution, starting with the recitation of the Preamble in every public forum, we might do a bit better.
